Bob Dylan was announced earlier this year as having written separate appreciations of more than 60 different songs for his forthcoming book, “The Philosophy of Modern Song.” Now, the names of ...

Bob Dylan performs in concert during Farm Aid at Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center on Sept. 23, 2023, in Noblesville, Ind. A Complete Unknown ends around 1965, but Dylan's career was only beginning.

The title of Bob Dylan’s latest book, “The Philosophy of Modern Song,” is, in a sense, misleading. A collection of brief essays on 65 songs (and one poem), it is less a rigorous study of ...

We are supposed to understand, I think, that this is not Bob Dylan after all, but instead “Renaldo.” She is, I think, “Clara.” They mutter glumly, the dialog most likely improvised.